Category: Media

On Sunday night I got to do some stumping for Jesus at Open Door Community in Walnut Creek. This time I gave an overview of Mark’s Christology with a focus on Jesus as The Man. Here’s a link if you’d like a little Kirk in your ear buds! The Good News of the Human Jesus […]

My post on Tuesday about friendship had several muses. One of them was this song, “Animal Mask,” from the new Mountain Goats album, Beat the Champ. In concerts John Darnielle has said that it’s about a battle royal–and about the labor and delivery room. Maybe that explains it. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a […]

Does God’s sovereignty mean that God is in charge of every bit of minutia that transpires in the world–including the choices we make? Does God’s sovereignty mean that God determines certain outcomes that will definitely take place but other things are left up to us? If God has a “plan” for me, can I mess […]

There’s this brand new movie that just came to theaters. It’s called Frozen. Ok, so the truth of the matter is that we never go to the theater, so it takes me 6-9 months to catch up on what everyone else is talking about. But I digress. The upside to my tardiness, however, is that […]

Saturday night, the annual film festival known as Windrider Bay Area hosted a showing of Red Dog. At the screening we were told that Red Dog is the all-time #3 selling DVD in Australia behind Avatar and Finding Nemo. (We also got to see the canine star’s screen test, which is hilarious.) The showing was […]

Yesterday, Elaine Pagels was on NPR’s Fresh Air discussing her new book on Revelation. The interview was interesting on a number of levels. She discussed the place that the book of Revelation has had in the history of interpretation, and how it was likely intended to be read in its first-century context. Pagels located John’s […]

So with this being the week of “If you can’t have the Bible you love, maybe you should try Loving the Bible you have,” as noted over at Unsettled Christianity, I thought that an apropos theme song for Bible lovers this winter might be the following from Stephen Stills: Please share the love:

The question of whether, and how, we can know God has been very much alive for the past couple hundred years. It’s been a problem philosophically, as the gulf between a supposedly transcendent God and the world in which we find ourselves has proven too much, say the philosophers, for the God on the other […]

Warning: this post is rated PG-13 for language. If you find strong language deeply offensive, please come back tomorrow. But really, the offense of strong language is the point. Sometimes life needs to be rated PG-13 for language. Because the reality of life rarely lives up to its Rated-G billing (better: the Rated G fascade […]

For all you Bay Area folks, here’s something you don’t want to miss: On Oct 22, Eucharist SF is hosting a concert featuring Bill Mallonee. If you don’t know Mallonee, check out his interview on the Homebrewed Christianity Podcast from a couple years back; or, if you’re more the reading type, check out this piece […]